Title: Dead Stars Author: Born in 1894 in Lucena City‚ Quezon. Marquez - Benítez authored the first Filipino modern English language short story‚ Dead Stars‚ published in the Philippine Herald in 1925. Born into the prominent Marquez family of Quezon province‚ she was among the first generation of Filipino people trained in the American education system which used English as the medium of instruction. She graduated high school in Tayabas High School now‚ Quezon National High School and college from
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Anyone can prepare themselves to become a stronger writer. It takes practice and self motivation to proceed in the process to get better. It’s not easy‚ but with determination it can be accomplished. In the film‚ Dead Poets Society‚ a new English teacher‚ John Keating‚ uses atypical methods of teaching to reach out to his students at an all-boys preparatory academy. Through his lessons‚ his students learned to overcome the pressures from their families and school and tried to pursue their dreams
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Discussion Questions: The Book of the Dead 1. Why are Annie and her father in Florida? 2. Where does Annie’s father go when he leaves the motel‚ and what does he do? 3. What surprising information does Annie’s father give her about his past? 4. Why does Annie hold back from promising to make another statue for Gabrielle Fonteneau? Thinking Critically 5. How does a particular historical period shape the events of this story? Could you imagine similar events happening in the lives of people who
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Memory is what defines our lives. Our identities are shaped by our past experiences and the ways that we cope with painful memory is an incredibly important part of the human experience. In 1984 by George Orwell‚ Beloved by Toni Morrison‚ and The Dead by James Joyce the common theme of traumatic memory is explored in a variety of ways. Each of these texts contain characters who suppress painful memories and each text explores the benefits and perils of suppressing these memories. Beloved gives
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“The Dead” is a short story written by James Joyce about Gabriel‚ a man who is facing troubles with his wife‚ Gretta. Gabriel stumbled upon Gretta in an intense trance‚ while a certain song is playing. Gabriel soon finds out that Gretta had a past lover who had died for her‚ and he understands that she still shows emotion for him. Gabriel feels alone and troubled for the first time in his life. This story shows his great suffering in the marriage and how it came to be. “The Dead‚” written by James
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Life and Death: Burial of the Dead The only thing in life that is one-hundred percent certain is death. Humans go through life ignoring this ultimate fate until the day they are confronted. What a civilization does with their deceased tells a lot about their culture and beliefs in an afterlife. Whether a person is cremated or the body is preserved‚ whether they are buried in the ground or placed in a tomb‚ and how their final place is decorated all show their cultures values and beliefs and what
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Living Dead “Last Night” by James Salter is a story about dying and the right to do it on your own terms. Marit Such‚ one of the three characters‚ is dying from metastasized uterine cancer. Once a beautiful woman‚ she has become only a shadow of her former self. Stripped of hope and unwilling to live in this state she has decided to end her life with an overdose of her prescription medication. Marit choose to die with dignity‚ right which people should have when they figure enough is
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Brooke Satterfield Analysis Assignment #3 Male Brain vs. the Female Brain I truly do not believe that this video could have been more spot on. I found it so informative‚ yet comical that he could distinguish the brains in such a precise‚ divided matter. He said what we as humans are always thinking: that men have a “one and done” kind of mentality where the ladies mind never stops moving… ever. I know from personal experience‚ I don’t even need to be under stress to be stressed. Thinking about
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Lovely Bones Assignment The title of my artwork is "Killing the Dead". The subject matter of my artwork is landscape‚ narrative history. The medium that are used for my artwork was watercolour pencils and the technique that I used was colouring both horizontally and vertically. The elements of design that are shown are movement‚ balance‚ and unity. The elements of design were arranged so that they would looked together and clean. The emphasis in my artwork is the skull. I’ve made the location
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Dead Man Dead Man is a western comedy that stars Johnny Depp and Gary Farmer directed by Jim Jarmusch. The film begins as Johnny Depp’s character William Blake travels west on the transcontinental railroad to the town of Machine‚ where he had been offered a job as an accountant. When he arrived he found that the position offered to him had already been filled‚ in addition‚ city slicker Blake who came all the way from Cleveland and sold everything to make the trip‚ was out of place among the
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